Not to bump up a five year old thread, but I was talking with someone on Twitter about this layout and I dug up the original.
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As best I can tell the caption is
"Best Work"
Shunsuke Akiba (8 years old) Yui-chan (3 years old), Ibaraki Prefecture. Title: "Plarail Thomas Island"
I assumed this is from some sort of magazine contest, and also wanted to see when exactly it was from.
Some more digging brought up the webpage of Shunsuke
http://www3.plala.or.jp/syunsbox/index.htm
From the home page it seems to be that "Railway Toys" magazine from Neko Publishing may have been the source of the contest. I poked around the website for a while and there is a lot of interesting content
You can see they have a Departing Now collection as well, so the coaches on the layout probably are Departing Now. It seems they built a number of cool set pieces and buildings, and also installed the magnetic couplings and painted some running boards white.
As best I can tell the caption is
"Best Work"
Shunsuke Akiba (8 years old) Yui-chan (3 years old), Ibaraki Prefecture. Title: "Plarail Thomas Island"
I assumed this is from some sort of magazine contest, and also wanted to see when exactly it was from.
Some more digging brought up the webpage of Shunsuke
http://www3.plala.or.jp/syunsbox/index.htm
From the home page it seems to be that "Railway Toys" magazine from Neko Publishing may have been the source of the contest. I poked around the website for a while and there is a lot of interesting content
You can see they have a Departing Now collection as well, so the coaches on the layout probably are Departing Now. It seems they built a number of cool set pieces and buildings, and also installed the magnetic couplings and painted some running boards white.
I have a website where I have been writing about and photographing many of the sets and pieces that I find interesting.
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